In this postapocalyptic fantasy, a sea of sand swallows everything but the past. In an endless sea of sand drifts the Mud Whale, a floating island city of clay and magic. In its chambers a small community clings to survival, cut off from its own history by the shadows of the past. Lykos and Ouni have been captured by Orca, but instead of organizing a rescue, Suou has ordered the Mud Whale to set sail

This book explores how cultural, social and political change happens through a unique analysis of the \'ethical turn\' in skateboarding today. Insights shared by key change-makers and industry insiders cover themes including First Nations, Black and People of Color, skater-run creative innovations, anti-colonialism, anti-racism initiatives, and a growing focus on equity and empowering skaters historically

Stone Barrington must battle a nasty opponent in this latest action-packed thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author. After returning home from a treacherous adventure, Stone Barrington is all too happy to settle back down in his New York City abode. But when he\'s introduced to a glamorous socialite with a staggering inheritance, Stone realizes his days are about to be anything but quiet.

A whimsical warmhearted autobiography of a twelve-year-old who became a great trial lawyerThe oldest of four children in a prototypical Irish Catholic family, Pierce O\'Donnell recounts growing up in a village with more cows than residents with his WWII-hero father, who owns the only liquor store; his intellectual mother, the librarian; his spinster aunt, the local postmaster; his three younger sisters;

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! From Misha Collins, actor, longtime poet, and activist, whose massive online following calls itself his \"Army For Good,\" comes his debut poetry collection, Some Things I Still Can\'t Tell You. Trademark wit and subtle vulnerability converge in each poem; this book is both a celebration of and aspiration for a life well lived. #1 PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLER! USA TODAY Bestseller!

The Laugavegur is one of the big walks. It is the most famous trek in Iceland and crosses other worldly landscapes formed by recent volcanos. I did it from north to south and it runs over 80km from Landmannalauger via Thorsmork to Skogar on the coast. The trail is normally open from late June to mid-August. I started on the 15 June, the first day the bus ran to Landmannalaugar. I hadn\'t booked the

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This book is the first to chart the rise and fall of peacebuilding. Charting its beginnings, as an ad-hoc extension of peacekeeping responsibilities, and formalisation, as a UN-supported international project of building liberal states. Twenty years later, the grounding policy assumptions of peacebuilding - that democracy, the rule of law and free markets were a universal solution to conflict-prone

The chronicles of Jean le Bel, written around 1352-61, are one of the most important sources for the beginning of the Hundred Years\' War. They were only rediscovered and published at the beginning of the twentieth century, though Froissart begins his much more famous work by acknowledging his great debt to the \"true chronicles\" which Jean le Bel had written. Many of the great pages of Froissart

ECPA BESTSELLER--Over one million copies sold! When a charming polar bear cub climbs into bed one night, she asks her Mama a very important question, one that little \"human cubs\" often wonder about, too: \"Where did I come from?\" As Mama bear tucks her youngest cub under the quilts, she gently, tenderly, and reassuringly communicates the message loving parents everywhere (bears and non-bears alike)

Reed King\'s amazingly audacious novel is something of a cross between L. Frank Baum\'s The Wizard of Oz, Douglas Adams\'s A Hitchhiker\'s Guide to the Galaxy, Cormac McCarthy\'s The Road, and Ernie Cline\'s Ready Player One.In Reed King\'s wildly imaginative and possibly prescient debut, the United States has dissolved in the wake of environmental disasters and the catastrophic policies of its final

Bond Comprehension Papers for 9-10 Years provides essential practice of core question types and text styles, including fiction, non-fiction and poetry, for answering comprehension questions in 11+, Common Entrance and SATs

The classic French erotic bestseller that preceded Fifty Shades of GreyA beautiful young French woman, known only as \'O\', is taken by her lover Rene to a splendid mansion near Paris. Here, she is initiated into an elite secret society, where she must learn to serve the sexual fantasies of Rene and his fellow

Practical strategies to help you transform the way you see yourself and create lifelong change. It\'s time to embrace your full potential. Covering everything from your inner critic to perfectionism, self-sabotage and procrastination, soothing your nervous system to limiting beliefs to inner child work to boundaries and self-love, Be Your Best Self is here to guide you. Discover your barriers to

Gerald McCarthy enlisted in the Marines at 17 and volunteered for Vietnam. After the war he went AWOL, then to civilian jails and military brigs and finally to a Navy psychiatric ward, where he witnessed patient-attempted suicides. Medically discharged, he returned home to upstate New York and piecework in shoe factories. Written in two voices--one lucid, one dreamlike--his memoir delivers a jump-cut